[Morgana]

The pictures on this link tell it all. People in England are very upset, as am sure so are people in America.

[Morgana]

A picture is worth a thousand words.

[JohnBrowdie]

" . . . a US doctor had told them it was now too late to give Charlie nucleoside therapy."

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remember the death panels?

[Nifster]

My heart breaks for these parents

The British health care system should be ashamed of itself for delaying so long. But then that is what single payer is designed to do

May the angels sing him home

May God grant his parents mercy and peace

[PMAS]

“Occasionally there were circumstances when a hospital and the parents were unable to agree what course of action was in the best interest of the child patient, in that instance the decision is referred to an independent judge...”

So even with their own money to pay for treatment, it was denied because the hospital disagreed.

[Gay State Conservative]

Britain's health system would collapse if it was discovered that patients who die in Britain could be saved in other countries...particularly the United States.Such a realization would cost them billions *and* show their health system to be inferior to those of other countries.

Also,Brits not only see their system as being superior to everything else on earth but they see *our* system as being just about the most barbaric you'll find.

This ruling was a victory for the British Medical Society,an organization far more concerned with image than patients.

[CGASMIA68]

I can be a real p*!(k @ times but this story makes me well up and I wish I never saw it if not only for the heart break of the parents.
For those Freepres that will tell me these things happen every day,( you know who you are) screw you, I don’t read about those every day

[a fool in paradise]

Run out the clock strategy.

State medicine couldn’t let someone seek private practice care.

Death panels don’t like to be challenged.

[metmom]

Matthew 10:42 And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.”

Matthew 25:40 And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

[lakecumberlandvet]

Bureaucracies kill. Just ask our Veterans. May God bless and keep little Charlie Gard.

[Salvation]

Charlie Gard: Timeline of parents’ legal battle
3 March 2017: Mr Justice Francis starts to analyse the case at a hearing in the Family Division of the High Court in London.
11 April: Mr Justice Francis says doctors can stop providing life-support treatment.
3 May: Charlie’s parents ask Court of Appeal judges to consider the case.
23 May: Three Court of Appeal judges analyse the case.
25 May: Court of Appeal judges dismiss the couple’s appeal.
8 June: Charlie’s parents lose fight in the Supreme Court.
20 June: Judges in the European Court of Human Rights start to analyse the case after lawyers representing Charlie’s parents make written submissions.
27 June: Judges in the European Court of Human Rights refuse to intervene.
3 July: The Pope and US President Donald Trump offer to intervene.
7 July: Great Ormond Street Hospital applies for a fresh hearing at the High Court.
24 July: Charlie’s parents end their legal fight to take him to the US for treatment.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Dying with dignity sounds so much better than being held captive and snuffed by ethicists.

[jarofants]

HERE IS A NEWS FLASH> I HOPE CHARLIE DIES. THIS COMING FROM A FATHER THAT HAS SEEN HIS CHILD SUFFER. IF THE YOUNG CHILD IS IN PAIN AND CAN’T BE SAVED, AND THE ONLY REASON FOR HIM TO CONTINUE IN PAIN IS FOR US, AND THERE IS NOT A CHANCE FOR HIM TO LEAD A LIFE LIKE THE REST OF US. LET HIM DIE. I PRAYED FOR MY SON TO DIE, YOU SEE HE WAS DIAGNOSIS WITH A RARE LIVER ALIMENT. THIS WAS THE SECOND TIME THEY HAVE EVER SEEN THIS. I SEEN HIM GO THROUGH SO MANY SURGERY’S, SEEN SO MUCH PAIN FOR HIM WITH NO CURE. I BEGGED GOD IF THERE IS NO CURE AND IF HE IS IN PAIN, PLEASE TAKE HIM. DO MOT LET HIM SUFFER FOR ME AND MY FAMILY. RELIEVE HIS PAIN.